The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1899, Page 2

EXPANSION POLICY IS DENOUNCED i Growing Deficit of Nation Causes Pointed Talk in.the House. Special Dispatch. to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—General de- bate on the sundry civil appropriation bill was concluded to-day. Dockery of ; who is at the head of the the'Appropriation Commit- ‘s figures of yes- ency in the rev- illette Missouri, minority « reinforced Canno lay as to the defi De 'Armond of Missouri. enues; of Massachusetts and others dis a the policy of nsion, and Lentz of Ohj sev ed the administra- tion for exercising clemency in the case of General Eagan. The latter charged hat there was an evident disposition ward those who -attacked General because the latter had had the tell the truth about allezed food fed to our troops In Porto Rico and Cuba. During the course of the debate HepbWrn, chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Com- mittee, gave notice that he would of- fer the Nicaragua canal bill as an amendment to the sundry civil bill. under the reaty a mere-bagatell Dockery (D.) of Missouri, who followed, congr ted the c upon the state- ent made vesterday, Had been made aid, the country might have been saved -many millions of I Dockery produced figures to that th was a y in sight a y of $§7,000,000 for the next fiscal how the construc- should either, i After the Cong had_rev- he substance of the y-fourth Congress had v _predicted that C would ted by, the spirit orty-fourth, and it tax burdens of the would cut down the Johr » n (R.) of Indiana asked how the itures could be reduced under. the gn policy entered upon by the admin- t circumstances tate large in- our military and ut he did believe e a great reduction in Gov- penditures. mean, then,” interposed John- h ‘we must cut down. the .ex- T our inte: irs home in ve may be to support a ¢ abroad? but that'the gentleman replied Dockery. ‘‘Some- ing knife must be laid or urdens of the people must is about right where the pru else the tax be speaking of the causes of the war, declared that great injustice had been done the Speaker of the House. = It ald verywhere that the Speaker had been opposed to the war. Yet, he de- clared, no solitary man in the country, or dozen men, in fact, had done so much to make the war inevitable as the Speaker. He suppressed debate in the ouse, had stifled the sentiments and consciences of members. President Mc- Kinley, if he had been here, had not dared | to do so much. The waters had been damned up. until the flood was inevita- ble. At last indignation throughout the country and the wholly unexpected blow- ing up of the Maine broke the flood- gates. Turning to the question of the future, De Armond declared that all history proved that when republics turned to- ward imperialism it was only a_question of time when the end.came. There was no goal. We were traveling a new road. All our grand heritage was to be aban- doned. . Should we not pause before we made the plunge? In conclusion, he appealed to the mem- | bers to break their shackles, rise in their digyity and assert themselves in favor of America in America, in favor of free go ernment at home and opposed to opp sion ‘the world over. If Congres pired without acting and matters w allowed to drift on, the die would be ¢ Our pride, our vanity would be appealed to. There would be prof against parting with the Philippines. ours, it would be argued, because we had paid for them; they were ours because we had shed our blood for them. Gillett (R.) of Massachusetts declared that he had rather pay $20.000,000 to be honorably rid of the Phihlippines than to pay $20,000,000 to keep them. The is- lands could not, in his opinion, ever be Americanized. Corruption and 'demoral- ization would creep in and there could be no compensating advantages. Kirkpatrick (R.) of Pennsylvania de- fended expansion, and Lentz (D.) of Ohio concluded the debate for the day with a denunciation of the President for com- muting the sentence of Commissary-Gen- eral Eagan. He declared that General Eagan’s attack upon General Miles had no parallel in military history. He called General Miles a liar for simply telling the truth to which 50,000 private soldiers could testify. The troops had been fed rotten beef, ‘sald ‘Lentz, and yet General Hagan was be suspended “with pry for six ars and then be retired on three-fourths a_lie. attacking General Miles with his pay dur- n}g his suspension, calculating the length o his life according to recognized mor- ; tables. Gereral Eagan would draw 0% from the treasury after he had been convicted by court-martial heinous offense against military disci- pline. The committee then arose. At 5 o'clock the House took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evenine session to be devoted to pen- sion legislation APPROPRIATION BILL BEFCRE THE SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—During the entire open session to-day. the.Senate had under consideration the legislative, ex-| ecutive and judicial - appropriation - bill. | Littler progress was made, the time large- lly lhelng occupied in a debate on minor oplcs. HEPBURN'S PLAN T0 BUILD CANAL Resulted From Numer- ous Conferences. . Special D h to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Represen- | .tative Hepburn’s notice in the House of Representatives that the Nicaraguan canal bill would be offered as an | amendment to the sundry civil bill re- | sulted from the numerous conferences | held to-day. Early in the day Chair- | man Burton of the River and Harbor Committee, conferred with Senator | Morgan with a view to having him | leave the river and harbor bill unin-| cumbered. Morgan is understood to have assent- ed not to embarrass the river and har- bor bill. This in turn led to consid- eration of the sundry ecivil bill as the medium for advancing the Nicaragua canal bill. As a result, Hepburn gav the formal notice. The amendment | which he proposes is the Hepburnybill providing .for the construction of %the canal. It appropriates $115,000.000 for canal construction and authorizes the President to negotiate with Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the route. The main difficulty lies in the rule which will be invoked against the amendment. This rule provides that | no appropriation shall be in order on any general appropriation bill for any expenditure ‘“not previously authorized by law.” It is claimed on the one hand | that this rule will positively exclude the amendment, but Hepburn. points | out that Congress has already author- ized and appropriated for two surveys | of the Nicaragua canal in sundry. ciyil bills and also increased the compensa- tion of the engineer in charge in one of these surveys. Upon these acts of Congress it will be claimed that the amendment is not obnoxious - to the rule and is germane. Should Sherman of New York. who is’ dhairman‘of the corhmittee of the whole, rule it out of order, it is possible that the friends of the bill will seek to overrule the chairman. Indeed, some of the members have.been sounded with this possibility in view. THE PAVONIA DISABLED. During a Hurricane the Vessel Is | Lost Sight Of. LONDON, Feb. 10.—The iCunard Steam- ship Company has recelved. the follow- ing dispatch from Captain Whitton of the ‘British steamer Colorado of the Wilson Jine, dated at Fayal, Azore Islands: ‘‘Pa- vonia, February 5, latitude 41, longitude 14 aisabled. Something wrong with boll- ers. Tried to tow her. Hawser broke. Lost sight of her in a hurricane.” e e Confirmed by the Senate. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The Senate to-day confirmed the following nomina- tions of Postmasters: Utah—R. F. Bothe, Arigham. _California — L. M. Baldwin, Whittier; T. F. Byrnes, San Mateo; F. M. Kelly, Needles; G. M. Ordway, Mer- ced; H. H. Youngken, Santa Paula. T S Not Yet Mustered In. WOODLAND, Feb. 10.—For more than menths the new ' military company :::oll”e‘d”‘ln this city has been waiting to ‘be mustered into the National Guard. The { and this portion of the buildin men are beginning to 'believe that some- body is exercising a “‘pull” against them. ——— GUEST OF A BURNING HOTEL "SUFFOCATED Louis Hollund of San Francisco Loses His Life at Vallejo. VALLEJO, Feb. 10.—Louls Hollund of Sam Franeiseo lost his life in a fire early this morning that destroyed the western annex of the Washington Hotel. Hollund was employed on the new' hospital at Mare Island. He retired at 11 o’clock with a roommate named Wolfe. The latter es. caped, but Hollund was overcome by smoke.. A brother of Hollund is employed in the Cafe Zinkland at San Francisco. The conflagration rined the saloon oc- cupied by W. P. Sweeney. It then spread to the upper story of the Washington, g is @ to: tal loss. The burned buildings formed an old_landmark, and the loss is estimated a The property was owned by the Henry Connolly estate. BLACKED THE EYE < OF THE TEACHER Stockton Youth Lightly Fined for Striking a Pretty School- ma’am. STOCKTON, Feb. 10.—Wesley Ewing, a 17-year-old. youth who lives in the Villa Tract, four miles south of the city, was fined $5 by Justice Wolf of Lathrop yes- térday for having blacked the eye of pretty Miss ‘Della Russell, the school te%;l;erhnc IFaTndllt Camp. physical culture contest took pl at the French Camp schoolhoyse. E)‘{’c:;‘z the participants, there were no witnesses fo the affair; but Miss Russell’s face and eye gave striing testimony. Ewing was one of Miss Russell’s favorite pupils, but the school trustees have sals that he leading scholar any shall not be her more. The little difficulty arose over a singing exercise. Young Ewing persisted in drop- ping notes and picking up discords. Th pretty schoolma’am ordered him to stay after school. He stayed. Miss Russell told him to !Ing: and instead of appeal- ing to her ear he led for it with his left fist. After sparring a short for 'wind, the surprised teacher landed on Ewing's cole lar and shook him seven ways at once. The loving pupil, contrary to all prize ring rules, hit during the clinch. Castora school has consequently taken a _vgcation; likewise the teacher has gone \into, enforced. retirement until her. fea- ures shall have resumed. their normal ' proportions. e MKINLEY AND- HAY . SIGN THE PEACE TREATY WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—The treaty of peace, as ratified by the Senate, was signed by the President and Secreta: Hay at 2:35 o'clock this afternoon g the library of the executive mansion. *There was little formality observed, although a number of persons were present by invitation of the President. ‘While signing the document the Presi- dent and Secretary of State sat at the round table in the center of the library. The ceremony occupied only a few min- utes, and at its conclusion Secretary Hay vrerlm:ed the document in its crim- son velvet case and took it to the State. Department for transmission to Madrid. Besides the President there were present Mrs. McKinley, Secretary Hay and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Borden, who are guests at the White House; Abner McKinley and Lieuten- ant Colonel B. F. Montgomery, U, S, V. Lot Dl ST The Grip Cure That Does Cure. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets removes the cause that produces La Grippe. ‘genu! Ras'L. "Bl Q7 on cach tablers Be. e senmipe because he had denounced the truth | He was to be rewarded for | of a most| The | | "INSULTING T0 -~ THE GERMANS" Berlin Officials Reticent| as to Samoa. RZFUSE TO DISCUSS STORIES DR. RAFFEL CARRIES IMPOR- TANT DISPATCHES. Emperor William Said to Disapprove of the Continuance of the Condominium in the Islands. Epecm Dispatch to The Call. 800000000000000000 LONDON, Feb. 11.—The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says: Emperor Willlam disap- proves of the continuance of the condominium in.Samoa and will almost certainly propose a con- ference of the three powers after he has received the statement of Dr. Johannes Raffel, president of the municipality of Apia. 2CO000000000 CoO000000C000 C0000000C000CC0Q00 BERLIN, Feb. 10.—The German For- eign Office is still awaiting official dis- patches from Samoa and declines to discuss the stories published.in a New 'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1899. COLLECTING THE ™ - EVIDENCE FOR THE COURT Both General Mi missary NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: Major General Miles, in anticipation of the assembling of the court of inquiry on the beef scandal, is collecting all re- ports and data in his possession for submission to that body. Though the court was ordered to investigate ‘‘cer- tain allegations of the major general commanding the army,” his friends as- sert that the precept of the court is in- correct and that he never made any direct allegations that supplies fur- nished to troops were unfit for issue. He simply told the War Commission that he had received reports from of- ficers and men unanimously condemn- ing the beef and canned meat. But he will make no objection to the precept of the court and will endeavor. to con- vince them that meat supplied to the army was generally bad. According to an official familiar with the scope of the court of inquiry’s present work, it will be to ascertain who made the.con- tracts for beef and canned meats, what were the character of the contracts, and if they could be fulfilled without the necessity of using preservatives to keep beef in a tropical climate, who in- OF INQUIRY les and the Com-= Department Are Working Energetically. spected the beef, who received the beef, and, lastly, who is responsible if it should be found that the ‘“allega- tions made by the commanding gen- eral” should be substantiated and what further proceedings shall be instituted. The commissary general's depart- ment is also preparing a mass of evi- dence which wiil be submitted to the court: Both ‘the testimony of General Miles and of the- commissary depart- ment will consist in the miin of official General Eagan is still at the War De- partment, denying himself to all visit- ors except personal friends. He is now relieved of the routine work of his office, which is being transacted by his assistants, and is free himself to correlating ' information in his possession for presentation to the court. Colonel Weston, who was appointed acting commissary general when Gen- eral Eagan was called to answer the charges preferred against him hefore the court-martial, is still in New York. The last news of him received at the department was that he had recovered from a severe spell of illness that re- sulted from his exposure during Cuban campaign, but was now on tack of sciatica contracted in active service long ago in the West. CREMATE 'WATCHED THE FLAMES TWO BABES Drunken Man Starts a Fire in Which His Grandchildren Perish. sistance. - liquor. whisky, which rekindled, the old sadly. 0O0CpC00COCOCCO0000000 0000000000000 C00 FORT BRAGG, Feb. 10.—Joe Boyle, a section foreman, during a fit of delirium tremens-at 11 o’clock last night, threw a lighted lamp to the floor of his little cottage near town. and his two grandsons, aged 5 and'3 years respectively, who with their mother resided with Boyle, perished in the flames. To humor Boyle his daughtar, Mrs. Minnie Hicks, permitted him to stay with the children upstairs while she occupied a 1roo: One or more of his fellow workmen attended him nightl Last night, ‘however, he told his nurse to go as he needed no further as- ‘When the nurse had gone Boyle exploded the lamp’in the room oc- cupied by the children and dashed through the flames to safety. He lay down on the ground complacently watching the flames consume his home and his daughter’s babes. but all efforts to rescue them were unavailing. Boyle had béen a heavy drinker, buf for five years had not tasted Having contraéted the grip, he began taking guinine and The building was burned below. Assistance arrived immediately, desire .for liquor. a.nd. resulted so cocoogoceccoceoCcCOCOOCOCe 0000000000000 00 York paper, told by passengers who ar- rived at San Francisco on Wednesday by the steamer Moana regarding the threatening attitude of the British cruiser Porpoise toward the- German cruigser Falke when matters recently came to a head at Apia. These stories and all like them are declared insulting to the representatives of Germany in Samoa, and either absolutely untrue or grossly exaggerated. The Vossische Zeitung, which con- firms the report that Dr. Raffel, presi- dent of the Municipal Council at Apia, is now on his way to Berlin with im- portant dispatches, characterizes untrue the reports of the conduct at- tributed to the Falke’s commander. It says: “The German naval officers were not | frightened by the insolent words of the British officer.” The Berlin Tageblatt says: “Chief Justice Chambers’ solicitude for the welfare of dead Germans insulted by Mataafa, while he himself was insult- ing every living German, is a bad car- nival joke. All the same, the reports show that the Americans and Britons jointly tried to suppress German au- thority, thus emphasizing.the impos- sibility of a continuance of ‘the tri- partite power.” The Lokal Anzeiger says: “If Chief Justice Chambers’ claim had been that Mataafa was excluded from the king- ship by the Samoan act the claim would have been well founded, as Germany would never have supported his can- didacy.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—The Sa- | moan trouble is assuming a somewhat new phase, according to the.view of |lendlng diplomatic authorities and one | | | of Samoa. likely. to bring about an adjustment on lihes herétofore not contemplated. This is in part foreshadowed in the official statement of the parliamentary secre- tary in the House of Commons yester- day to the effect that further informa- tion would be awaited before consider- ing the recognition of Mataafa as King Mataafa is not the claim- nt who has thus far received the sup- port of the British and American au- thorities as they wupheld Malietoa Tanu, who had been declared by Chief Justice Chambers, an American, as rightfylly entitled to the throne. While the announcement in the House of Commons is open to various interpre- tations yet it seemed to indicate clearly that the recognition of Mataafa, who was upheld by the Germans, may be taken into consideration. 5 TO THE PHILIPPINES " IN_AN OPEN BOAT CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—A trip from San Francisco to Manila, across the Pacific {Ocean, alone in on open sailboat, will be attempted by Captain Adolph Frietsch in the near future. Captain Frietsch, who is a navigator from Milwaukee, was in Chicago to-day making arrangements for the proposed expedition. The Captain has a record for open-boat sailing. In 1894 he crossed the Atlantic in fourteen days and three hours, making the 5000 miles from Sandy Hook to Teer-eight alone in the schooner Nine, only forty feet on the wa- ter line. In the Pacific trip Frietsch ex- cts to reach Honolulu after twenty-one ays’ salling San Francisco and will endeavor to cover the distance from Hon- olulu to Manila in forty-two days. The boat that Frietsch will use will be twen- ty-four feet on the water line, flat=bot- tomed, with a heavy centerboard. The captain salled the Pacific Ocean when a boy, and is well acquained with trade winds that will- be encountered on ‘the journey. i b SRR " Dr. Jordan Will Lecture. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb, 10.— Dr. Jordan will deliver here next Tues- day evening a lecture on- ““The Philippine Question.” ¥ as | CALOOCAN FALLS BEFORE AMERICANS Continued from First Page. on board the Uranus sailed for Iloilo yesterday, with the Tennessee Regi- ment, on board the United States trans- port St. Paul. No vesseis have cleared from Manila for the Philippine ports | since Saturday, consequently no news | has yet reached outside points. The Uranus cleared for Iloilo on Sat- urday, but instead of sailing on Sun- day she was detained by the American authorities. Except that Caloocan has been taken the American line is about the same as | on Wednesday. On the right General Overshine's brigade extends to the beach two miles north of Camp Dewey and to the Pasig River, Lieutenant Colonel Treumann, with the North Da- kota volunteers, has established his headquarters on the beach where he is in signal communication with the Am- erican fleet. The second battalion of the Dakota regiment extends along the front and all of the Fourteenth Infan- try, with the exception of Companies M and E, is stationed at the Pasig River and, extends thence to San Pedro and Malate in a complete line. Scouting parties of the Dakota Regi- ment yesterday surprised some Fili- pino scouts at the bridge across the Paranque River. The encmy retired hurriedly, swimming the stream in or- der to reach the main body of the rebels, intrenchéd opposite Troop K of the Fourth Cavalry. A few rebels have concentrated at Pdaranque. While they are intrenched they are fully exposed from the water front. General King's headquarters are now-at the village of Pasig, which sur- rendered yesterday without opposition. Many of the rebels are coming in, hop- ing to be allowed to enter Manila, but they have been refused the necessary permission and are now afraid to re- turn to the enemy’s ranks. The California Regiment, whose members are in excellent spirits, is now occupying the villages of Pasig, Malate and Santa Ana. Since the Wyoming Regiment re- lieved the Twenty-third Regiment at the .waterworks there has been no change in General Hale’s position. The Nebraska = Regiment, Colorado Regi- ment, South Dakota Regiment and Utah Artillery are occupying the same posts. f One of the Kansgs men among the wounded is Daniel Hewitt of Topeka. He has a severe flesh ' wound in the | right thigh. His condition is reported by the surgeon to be very good. | _Hewitt is a son of ex-Postmaster Hewitt of North Topeka and nephew of former Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of New York. MME. CANDELARIA DEAD. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 10.—Madame Candelaria, the only survivor of the Ala- mo massacre, and one of the historical bersons of this country, died this after- noon from an attack of the grip. She was 15 years of age, as authenticated by her baptismal certificate in the records of the Catholic parish church. ¥ D gl 2 . Don Carlos’ Instructions. LONDON, Feb. 11.—The Rome corre- spondent of the Daily Chroniclé says he learns from a good source that Don Car- jdos has-instructed ‘his agents in Spam to stop the agitation in his behalf. i SWAM THROUGH A GALE-SWEPT SEA Desperate Struggle of Wrecked Men. Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 10.—A ter- rible tale of the sea was brought to this port to-day. It relates to the nar- row escape of four men from drowning in English Bay, two miles from here, and of the probable death of one of them from the effects of his thrilling experience. On_Wednesday, last August Nelson and Peter and Ed Corfield of this city, accompanied by a man named Oscar, set out in a sixteen-foot”sailboat for Eagle Harbor, up Howe Sound. Little wind was blowing, but quite a sea was running and snow fell occasionally. Corfield has a ranch at Eagle Harbor and for this the four men were bound. They ran out of the narrows with little difficulty, but when between the Capi- lano and Pilot Cove a huge sea struck the boat 'and it rapidly filled with water. Then a second and a third sea dashed over the bow and the boat was capsized about a quarter of a mile from shore. /It was then dark and in the desperate battle for life in the choppy sea the wréeckéd men became separated. © All were powerful swimmers, but the tide was against them and when, after a long struggle, they finally reached shore, they were half dead from cold and exhaustion. Peter Corfield crawled up a steep bank and heard his friends shouting for assistance out in the water. He could offer no help, and, as he thought, left them to their fate. Traveling all night he found two of them the next morning on a ranch up the coast, very ill from their awful experience. Ed Corfleld and Oscar were missing. Search was made for them and Oscar was discovered at noon lying in a shal- low stream in a ravine unconscious. He recovered sufficiently to say that he got separated from Ed Corfield on a mountain side and then fell down the rayvine, lying insensible from about 9 o'clock on Wednesday night until found at noon the following day. He had struck a rock in his fa]l and knew nothing afterward. Ed Corfield, Oscar thinks, strayed into the mountains during the blinding snowstorm and perished. Large search- ing parties were out all day, but could get no trace of the missing man. Search will be resumed to-morrow, but the friends of Corfield have given up hope. COLWELL GUILTY OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 10.—The trial of Victor J. Colwell for robbing the stage plying between this city and Bolinas was ended to-day, and the case went to the Jury at 8 p. m. At a late hour the jury returned a .verdiet of guilty. “Attorney Cochrane had a number of witneses on the stand in the morning and during the great- er part of the afternoon in an endeavor to bolster up the insanity plea, and a few witnesses were called 'bv District Attor- necy lMcXIl:}aa.c in Vrebul(tal. olwell’s parernts, sister and brother tes- tified that ge had for years been amlctte:d with melancholia, and was irresponsible for his actions. Fred Johnson and. others testified that he acted in a peculiar man- ner prior to the commission of the crime. Ex-Sheriff Harrison and several others sald he appeared perfectl: Dlaced under Arrent. Joretoni wien Both District Attorney McIsaae and At- torney D. W. Ryan made good arguments for the State, and Attorney Cochrane con- sumed a good deal of time in an effort to show that Colwell should not be held ‘re- sponsible for the robbery. Judge Angel- lotti's charge to the jury was eminently fair, and the fate of the young bandit was left in their hands at 8.o’¢lock. SAN JOSE APPROVES HAWLEY’S NOMINATION SAN JOSE, Feb. 10.—The nogination of W. G. Hawley as Postmaster #8f this city to-day by President McKinley meets the approval of most: of the people. John D. ackenzie, ex-Boss Reéa's lieutenant, made a fight for the place. Numerous pe- titions protesting against his appointment were forward to Washington and Con- gressman Loud refused to help Macken- zie. For some time.it was feared Mac- kenzie would be appointed, and when it was announced on bulletin boards that Hawley’s name was sent to the Senate :here vgas e{lgra(l; rejgl&xng. Hawley is ‘member o e Gran rmy ‘and a re: estate dealer of this city. y, 2l oty 3 Still Controls Bicycle Racing. PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Feb. 10.—To con- tinue the control of bicycle racing, both professional and amateur, to exclude the former from membership, but to allow them a representative at the national as- sembly, and extending to President Kee- nan a representative on the racing board, were the main results of the 1869 national embly of the Leéague of American ‘heelmen, which finshed its work in this city this afternoon. 3 Assemblymen on a Junket. STOCKTON, Feb. 10.—Assemblyman J. M. Griffin of Madera and J. 8. Wardell of San Francisco were in Stockton to-day on | their way south on a visit of inspection K L. p_In 0C! al on their way back to Sacramento. :‘K " A reports, and both will be voluminous. to devote | the | | erutches with a return of a severe at- | PACIFIC CABLE IS NOW A NECESSITY The President’s Message to Congress. URGES [MMEDIATE ACTION CONSTRUCTION WOULD QUIRE TWO YEARS. RE- Present Means of Communication With Honolulu and Manila Are Wholly Inade- quate. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The Presi- dent's message on the Pacific cable, transmitted to Congress to-day, is as follows3 ¢ As a consequence of the ratification of | the treaty of Paris by the Senate of the United States and its expected ratification by the Spanish Goyernment, the United | Btates will come into possession of the Philippine Islands, on the farther shores | of the Pacific. The Hawalian Islands and | Guam belng United States territory and forming convenient stopping places on the way across the sea, the necessity for speedy cable communication between the | United States and all the Philippine Isl- | ands has become imperative. Such com- | munication should be established in such | & way as to be wholly under the control | of the United States, whether in time of peace or war. At present the Philippines | can be reached only by cables which pass through many foreign countries, and the | Hawalian Islands and Guam can be only | communicated with by steamers,, inyolv- ing delays in each instance of at least a week. The present conditions should’ not be allowed to continue for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary. The time has now arrived when a ca- ble in the Pacific must extend as far as Manila, touching at the Hawailan Islands and Guam on the way. Two methods of establishing this cable communication at once suggest themgelves. First, construc- | tion and maintenance of such a cable at | the expense of the United States Govern- | ment, and, second, construction and main- | tenance of such a cable by a private Unit- ed States corporation under such a safe- | guard as Congress shall impose. 1 do not make any recommendation to Congress as to which of these methods would be the more desirable. A cable of the length of that proposed requires so much_time for construction-and laying that it is estimated that at least two years must elapse after giving the orders | for the cable before the entire system | | could be successfully laid and put in oper- | ation. Further deep sea séundings must be_taken west of the Hawailan Islands | before the best route can. be selected for | the cable. Under these circumstances, it | | becomes a paramount necessity that | measures should be taken before the closa | of the present Congress to provide such | means as may seem suitable for the es- | tablishment of a cable system. I recommend the whole subject to the careful Cflnslderntio? of the Congress m:id to such prompt action as may seem ad- Heabier PrOTPYGILIAM MKINLEY., Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., February 10, 1899. REYES DECLARES WAR AGAINST ZELAYA ddent Zelaya is sending General Irene Es- trada from San Euvaldo in the direction of Rama, ninety miles distant, with about | 1000 soldiers, .Beveral cannon and good equipments. L General Reyes, who has rebelled.agatfist | the Govérnment of President lzg:y: and vho is now at Blueflélds, proclaimed gen-, :ral in chief of Nicaragua on February 3, and, backed by the signatures of sev- eral prominent natives, has déclared war against President Zelaya. General Reyes bromises that in the event of his success the people of Nicaragua shall have free and fair elections for national offices. ADMIRAL CERVERA WILL BE PROSECUTED MADRID, Feb. 10.—The supreme mili- tary court, which has had under consid- eration the loss of the Spanish squadron at Santiago de Cuba, on July 3 last, has decided to prosecute in connection with the “disaster Admiral Cervera and Com- mandant Emilio Diaz de Moreu, former %m?taln of the destroyed cruiser Cristobal olon. Al DEATH OF AN EDITOR. ANTIOCH, Feb. 10.—Charles F. Mont- gomery, the pioneer editor ‘of’ this county, died to-day at his son’s home after an operation for cancer of the stomach. He was chairman of the Democratic County Committee and held other prominent po- sitions. His age was 47. ——- Claims of Agoncillo. MONTREAL, Que., Feb. 10.—Agon- cillo stdated to-day positively that he had authentic information to the ef- fect that Aguinaldo did not want a cessation of hostilities and had not asked for it. When asked how he ob- tained this information he refused to say. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 10.—Pres- | | Roman Catholics were on SAMOAN WHITES FEAR MASSACRE Atrocities Committed by Natives. REBELS WAR ON WOMEN HOUSES OF AMERICANS ARE RANSACKED: Germany’s Support Has Caused the Follo ers of Mataafa.to Grow Unusually Bold. HONOLULU, Feb. 4—The followin letter, received here by the Moana frc a consular official in Samoa, contair much of interest in regard to the S moan trouble: APIA, Jan. 25, I have returned to Apia four gooner than I had intended dreadful state of affai They were bad enough they are worse this y German side having been- victorious. wonder. how long America and Eng are going to ‘allow Germany to make fools of them? The natives never went quite so.far he fore as they have done this time, and with the next outbreak it is almost cer- tain that whites will be massacred. This time they broke into several white men's houses and stole everything, and what -was too large to carry they smashed. My own House was treated in this ma r and not a single thing left in my bed and bedding were taken the house was locked and it was b into and completely cleaned ouf, per’'s house was treated in the same man- ner, so you see they had apparently a [svart!l‘ulnr grudge against the late United tates Consulate officials; perhaps they were getting even for the part we tool when they were following Tamasese, f( the present Mataafa followers are ti late Tamasese gang. The Germans have thrown this lat- ter chief ovey because he submitted to tha orders of the Supreme Court, and have taken up with Mataafa just to cause trou- ble in the country and get the whole Sa- moan question opened again in theé hope that they may fare bétter than'in the Berlin Conference, and, perhaps, get the sole control of Upolu. They have been making themselves obnoxious in Tonga as well during the_last two months, and the German Vice Jonsul went so far as to threaten to hoist the German flag there if the natives did not immediately pay their debts to the German firms. M idea is_that they will demand that t: whole Pacific question be dealt with the same time and that by at first pres- sing their claims in Tonga and places they can evertually make way ¢ 4 bigger hold in' Samoa. I can’t think what the officials w thinking about ‘in recognizing that “p visional government.” That w a ver weak step, I think. There should have been an American man-of-war there. to have helped the British, and then it would Har- probably -have been different. Things could not have been any worse had th “P. G.” not been recognized, for the brutes have kept right on burning sand looting, ever since the Apia fight, in other parts of the group. e personally is with Malietoa, late following is with Mataafa and these are the brutes who are &arry on such horrible outrages. They beh: in a most shocking manner to.the womeu by tearing off all of their clothes, leav- ing them in very many instances guite .naked, and when they.could not get the Hngs Off their fngers fast enoigh they chopped them off. and ir-takiug their e TIngS they-SHuply- tore thollt vut, Mpping d*flwn the ear;.and all such atrooities:as OUTLAW YU-MAN-TZE ON ANOTHER RAID TACOMA, Feb. 10.—The Glenogle; from Hongkong and way ports brings the late papers from Chind and Japan, The-North China News says: P ““Yu-Man-Tze_ is reported to be on-fhe raid again and to haye captured, two French misefonaries. If he is to, receive & button and 100,000 taels every day he'is on the rampage, destroying. places dnd slaying foreigners, his followers ‘will in- crease, his courage grow -greatly and-a general insecurity in inland cities will prevail. “Tt is reported from the west that after the raiding at Kueifu, while ‘several hun- dreds of children under the care of the their _way down the river they were seized and drowned.. We have received no confirma- tion of this and trust it may only be a rumor.” 2 g SMALLPOX AT FRESNO. FRESNO, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Gleason, who arrived here a few days ago from New Mexico, was taken {ll yesterday with smallpox. She fled from New Mexico to escape the dread disease, but.she evident- ly had contracted the germs lefore leav- ing home. The house where<&he is con- fined is quarantined and the lgral health officers have no fear that the disease will spread. ARRIVED. Friday, February 10. Brig Consuelo, Page, 21 days from Honolulu. P 10 cts regularly 20 cents. - Taste it with Corresponidence office at ser- vice of visitors, stationery fur- nished free. Demonstration all this week of Lipton’s World-Celebrated Ceylon Teas and Wheatine, the purest of breakfast mush, with cream. Clothing sale on third floor draws large crowds of buyers; nearly $20,000 worth of latest styles at 50 cents on the dollar;| bought from the Board of Trade. - BEST EGGS, 20 cts dozen.: To-day only, limit 2 dozen to one person; regularly 25o. EAGLE MILK, ‘ 10 cts can. 1 can at 10 cents with each general grocery order; regularly -15c. Not sold at 10 cents except with & mixed order (5 or more items). GRAPE NUTS, - 1 package only at this price and only with a general grocery order; SPECIALS TO-DAY ONLY. package. cream;. first counter. Sale of Genuine '@ French ‘White Castile Soap continues till gone, at 20 cents bar; entire invoice purchased at ship’s side. Coming—1200 dozen (entire balance of factory stock of.’93 pack) Pure Food Jams, none better, to be placed on sale soon at 5 and 8 cents a tin. Customers tell us they save 5 and 10 cents on nearly ill .small articles they buy here as comparkd | with- other stores. oo T SR, 5 Smith’s Ci Store, ‘2527 Market street, San meu:llcc; ECEO EoHO eRd ] s